Acting · Rome, Italy · Born March 7, 1908
Anna Magnani (pronounced: mahn-YANEE; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome to an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained crippled. She was referred to as "La Lupa," the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. Time magazine described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress that film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema." Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse. Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955. After meeting director Goffredo Alessandrini she received her first screen role in La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento) (1934) and later achieved international fame in Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945), considered the first significant movie to launch the Italian neorealism movement in cinema. As an actress she became recognized for her dynamic and forceful portrayals of "earthy lower-class women" in such films as The Miracle (1948), Bellissima (1951), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Fugitive Kind (1960), with Marlon Brando and directed by Sidney Lumet, and Mamma Roma (1962). As early as 1950, Life magazine had already stated that Magnani was "one of the most impressive actresses since Garbo". Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Magnani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
MovieWe Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
MovieCinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021
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MovieThe Passion of Anna Magnani
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieQuand Jean devint Renoir
2017
as Camilla (archive footage)
MovieLuchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
2016
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGirlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe War of the Volcanoes
2012
as Self (archive footage)
MovieVittorio D.
2009
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood sul Tevere
2009
MovieRossellini and the City
2009
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MovieAnna Magnani: Femmina Immortale
2008
as Self
MovieAnna Magnani - Recitare la verità
2008
as (archive footage)
MovieMy Dad Is 100 Years Old
2006
as Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieOnce Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBellissime
2004
as (archive footage)
MovieBarbra Streisand: The Movie Album
2003
as Gioia (archive footage)
TVUn film et son époque
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRossellini Under the Volcano
1998
as Maddalena Natoli (archive footage)
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
as Self - actress
MovieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Serafina Delle Rose / Lady Torrance (archive footage)
MovieRossellini Through His Own Eyes
1993
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
MovieMy Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRoma
1972
as Anna Magnani
Movie1870
1972
as Teresa Parenti
MovieThe Automobile
1971
as Anna
MovieTre donne - 1943: Un incontro
1971
as Jolanda
MovieTre donne - La sciantosa
1971
as Flora Torres
MovieThe Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970
as Rosa
MovieCinéma et Réalité
1967
as Self
MovieMade in Italy
1965
as Adelina (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 3")
MovieJosefa's Loot
1963
as Josefa
MovieMamma Roma
1962
as Mamma Roma
MovieThe Passionate Thief
1960
as Gioia 'Tortorella' Fabbricotti
MovieThe Fugitive Kind
1960
as Lady Torrance
MovieHell in the City
1959
as Egle
MovieWild Is the Wind
1957
as Gioa
MovieThe Awakening
1956
as suor Letizia
TVCinépanorama
1956
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MovieThe Rose Tattoo
1955
as Serafina Delle Rose
MovieVariety carousel
1955
Anna Magnani
1953
MovieWe, the Women
1953
as Anna (segment "Anna Magnani")
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
MovieThe Golden Coach
1952
as Camilla
MovieRed Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
1952
as Anita Garibaldi
MovieBellissima
1952
as Maddalena Cecconi
MovieThe Ways of Love
1950
as Nannina
MovieVolcano
1950
as Maddalena Natoli
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self
MovieL'Amore
1948
as Woman on the Phone (segment "Una voce umana") / Nannina (segment "Il miracolo")
MovieWoman Trouble
1948
as Linda Bertoni
MovieAssunta Spina
1948
as Assunta Spina
MovieUnknown Men of San Marino
1948
as Liana, la prostituta
MovieAngelina
1947
as Angelina Bianchi
MoviePeddlin' in Society
1946
as Gioconda Perfetti
MovieThe Bandit
1946
as Lidia
MovieBefore Him All Rome Trembled
1946
as Ada
MovieRevenge
1946
as Adele Vicarelli
MovieDown with Misery!
1945
as Nannina Straselli
MovieRome, Open City
1945
as Pina
MovieCrazy Quartet
1945
as Elena
MovieIl fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
as Maria Comasco, l'attrice
MovieThe Last Wagon
1943
as Mary Dunchetti
MovieThe Peddler and the Lady
1943
as Elide
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1943
as Virginia
MovieL'avventura di Annabella
1943
as La mondana
MovieLuck Comes from Heaven
1942
as Zizì
MovieFinalmente soli
1942
as Ninetta
MovieTeresa Venerdì
1941
as Loletta Prima
MovieLa fuggitiva
1941
as Wanda Reni
Una lampada alla finestra
1940
as Ivana
MoviePrincess Tarakanova
1938
as Marietta, la cameriera
Movie30 Seconds of Love
1936
as Gertrude Siriani, la sorella zitella di Tullio
MovieCavalleria
1936
as Fanny
MovieQuei due
1935
as Pierotta
MovieFull Speed
1934
as Emilia - la cameriera
MovieThe Blind Woman of Sorrento
1934
as Anna, la sua amante
Das Mädchen der Strasse
1928
